I'm building a little client application with Ktor accessing a Third-Party-API. The API give a respo...

# serialization

[Tobias Wohlfarth]

I'm building a little client application with Ktor accessing a Third-Party-API.
The API give a response with the following part

fullsize_url: "https://...."
image_url: "https://...."

In my Data Class these should be represented by specific URL Types.
Which one should i use java.net.URL or io.ktor.http.Url ? Is there a ready to use Serializer for any of those both?

[Adam S]

I think there's a ready-to-use serializer for URLs in https://github.com/Kantis/ks3

[Adam S]

@file:UseSerializers(
  UrlSerializer::class,
  FooSerializer::class,
  BarSerializer::class,
  // ...
)

[Adam S]

you could also consider using typealiases

typealias UrlSerialized = @Serialized(with = UrlSerializer::class) URL

that would save having to copy-paste the @file:UserSerializers() in multiple files

[Emil Kantis]

I think there is a typealias included :) UrlAsString, unless it was added after 0.0.2